pedimana

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Foot-handed mammals—that is, the lemurs: a synonym of Prosimiæ, Lemuroidea, and Strepsirrhina. Also Pedimani.
• noun A group of marsupial or didelphian mammals, the American opossums: so called from the hand-like structure and function of both hind and fore feet. It has lately been adopted as one of eight “orders” of marsupial mammals.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of marsupials, including the opossums.